but the ostensibly higher rank noble that he serves or pay deference too did. It might be he's such a prodigy he does not need them. I highly doubt the sect would give poisonous or debilitating pills to it's disciple without warning them.
Live The Balance (Original cultivation)
- Thread starter Kadmus
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Still haven't answered why the sect would give poisonous pills without warning to people in it.
Kadmus
Dragon's teeth are surprisingly hard to sow
- Location
- Devon
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- He/Him
Yes. The element cycle follows the wuxing properties for overcoming/strengthening etc. So metal is strengthened by earth, overcomes wood and is overcome by fire and so on.
Elements that overcome the other are treated as 2 Steps higher (+20%).
Elements that strengthen work the same way, so using a wood technique into an ongoing water technique will enhance the wood technique to +20%.
Most cultivators use 3 elements. Their primary, support arts that feed their primary, and a couple of techniques that overcome the element that overcomes their primary.
TimEd
Meteor maker
[X] Plan: No Drugs, Just Gains
-[X] 1 block a day on mental cultivation.
-[X] 1 block a day on mental cultivation.
-[X] 1 block a day on The Garden Job.
-[x] 1 block a day on cultivation, alternating mental and physical and starting on mental.
The excess in Mental cultivation is to help build it all back if ever we do fail in breaking through.
[x] Jia.
[x] Zhang Shui.
I like these two. They aren't slackers. Also I only want to interact with the Lady Zu and Ma Gang after we personally break through in Mental as well. It would give us more to talk about and in a much closer to even standing (fellow non-failed sect members) compared to if we talked to them before that.
-[X] 1 block a day on mental cultivation.
-[X] 1 block a day on mental cultivation.
-[X] 1 block a day on The Garden Job.
-[x] 1 block a day on cultivation, alternating mental and physical and starting on mental.
The excess in Mental cultivation is to help build it all back if ever we do fail in breaking through.
[x] Jia.
[x] Zhang Shui.
I like these two. They aren't slackers. Also I only want to interact with the Lady Zu and Ma Gang after we personally break through in Mental as well. It would give us more to talk about and in a much closer to even standing (fellow non-failed sect members) compared to if we talked to them before that.
[X] Leng Jin.
[X] Liao He.
[X]Plan We're ahead so build a better foundation.
[X] Liao He.
[X]Plan We're ahead so build a better foundation.
I changed my choice of plan vote because I just remembered an elder threatened everyone with being turned into cultivation resources if they broke the law, and that makes more more suspicious of pills/elixirs. I also did not want to go with a plan that did not include bureaucracy training, since I think it is best to make the most of our chance to train within the special formation that makes learning bureaucracy stuff easier that they use for the lessons.
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[X] Plan: Let's Not Start Using Drugs Just Yet
- Location
- Earth
[X] Plan: Let's Not Start Using Drugs Just Yet
[X] Leng Jin
[X] Shan Hong
[X] Leng Jin
[X] Shan Hong
It's probably too late to start a new plan, but the existing ones are either incomplete (lacking in contingencies in case of success/max reached or worded ambiguously), misguided, or not to my liking.
As far as I can see, this:
The one pill that would be useful is
[X] Plan Max Bureaucracy, Sect Points and Breakthrough
-[X] 1 block a day on The Garden Job.
-[X] 1 block a day on reading and writing lessons, until 25% bureaucracy is reached.
--[X] after 25% bureaucracy is reached, use this block on the Garden Job.
-[X] 1 block a day on mental cultivation, until 10 DoS are reached.
-[X] 1 block a day on mental cultivation, until 10 DoS are reached.
--[X] after 10 DoS are reached, use one of the two blocks above on mental breakthrough.
---[X] after successfully breaking through, use that block on physical cultivation.
[X] Lady Zhu.
[X] Shan Hong
As far as I can see, this:
does nothing for us right now, because we/our opponent only rolls 1 die, thanks to our low mental talent. Isn't that right, @Kadmus ?
The one pill that would be useful is
which costs 100 points. Given that we make a minimum of 10 points per time block spent on our Garden Job, the price is not too steep, but it's probably not worth it compared to time blocks spent on grinding mental cultivation with the hope of not failing the breakthrough roll, at least this coming week. If we end up having trouble, we can purchase it during the next vote.
[X] Plan Max Bureaucracy, Sect Points and Breakthrough
-[X] 1 block a day on The Garden Job.
-[X] 1 block a day on reading and writing lessons, until 25% bureaucracy is reached.
--[X] after 25% bureaucracy is reached, use this block on the Garden Job.
-[X] 1 block a day on mental cultivation, until 10 DoS are reached.
-[X] 1 block a day on mental cultivation, until 10 DoS are reached.
--[X] after 10 DoS are reached, use one of the two blocks above on mental breakthrough.
---[X] after successfully breaking through, use that block on physical cultivation.
[X] Lady Zhu.
[X] Shan Hong
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If this is true. And I believe it is, I will change the plan accordingly. I am just waiting for @Kadmus to clarify the matter.
Thank you @Epic Bygones
Plan: Let's Not Start Using Drugs Just Yet. Changed due to clarification.
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- Location
- England
[X] Plan Max Bureaucracy, Sect Points and Breakthrough
-[X] 1 block a day on The Garden Job.
-[X] 1 block a day on reading and writing lessons, until 25% bureaucracy is reached.
--[X] after 25% bureaucracy is reached, use this block on the Garden Job.
-[X] 1 block a day on mental cultivation, until 10 DoS are reached.
-[X] 1 block a day on mental cultivation, until 10 DoS are reached.
--[X] after 10 DoS are reached, use one the two blocks above on mental breakthrough.
---[X] after successfully breaking through, use that block on physical cultivation.
[X] Lady Zhu.
[X] Shan Hong
-[X] 1 block a day on The Garden Job.
-[X] 1 block a day on reading and writing lessons, until 25% bureaucracy is reached.
--[X] after 25% bureaucracy is reached, use this block on the Garden Job.
-[X] 1 block a day on mental cultivation, until 10 DoS are reached.
-[X] 1 block a day on mental cultivation, until 10 DoS are reached.
--[X] after 10 DoS are reached, use one the two blocks above on mental breakthrough.
---[X] after successfully breaking through, use that block on physical cultivation.
[X] Lady Zhu.
[X] Shan Hong
What techniques should Zhi Gao use?
-[] Price: 25, 50
--[] Mental, Physical
--[] Elements: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood.
--[] General categories: Attack, Defend, Support, Heal, Move. (More specific categories might be available)
Kadmus
Dragon's teeth are surprisingly hard to sow
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@Tharuk @Epic Bygones The Still Mind Pill will not be useful right now, you're correct. The Abyssal Deep Pill will put your mental cultivation skill on par with the roll you're opposing.
You get 11 sect points on a minimum-success roll for the garden job, and 5 sect points on a failure. This is better than the 4 sect points plus Degrees of Success you would get for other Outer Human Realm jobs available at your level.
EDIT: Oh, and once you're fully in Outer Human you can start looking at getting bound spirits. They don't take up technique slots or anything.
You get 11 sect points on a minimum-success roll for the garden job, and 5 sect points on a failure. This is better than the 4 sect points plus Degrees of Success you would get for other Outer Human Realm jobs available at your level.
EDIT: Oh, and once you're fully in Outer Human you can start looking at getting bound spirits. They don't take up technique slots or anything.
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- scrabbling
[X] Plan: Let's Not Start Using Drugs Just Yet
The 'Max' plan is better, but also annoying to read and parse. Defeat conditional plans and get them out of quest culture.
[X] Jia
[X] Shan Hong
Before talking to Lady Zhu, it would be a good idea to speak to Ma Gang at least once or twice, despite him being rather prickly and stuckup. Even if Lady Zhu personally is magnanimous, and sect-siblings are theoretically on equal footing, Zhi Gao is a peasant living in a feudal society and there are certain expectations regarding station. Speaking to her without a specific reason would make Zhi Gao seem to be a social climber trying to take advantage of her attitude.
The 'Max' plan is better, but also annoying to read and parse. Defeat conditional plans and get them out of quest culture.
[X] Jia
[X] Shan Hong
Before talking to Lady Zhu, it would be a good idea to speak to Ma Gang at least once or twice, despite him being rather prickly and stuckup. Even if Lady Zhu personally is magnanimous, and sect-siblings are theoretically on equal footing, Zhi Gao is a peasant living in a feudal society and there are certain expectations regarding station. Speaking to her without a specific reason would make Zhi Gao seem to be a social climber trying to take advantage of her attitude.
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Without that, what ends up happening is the QM has to ask for an additional clarifying vote they hadn't really planned on, which delays the actual update. Just like it happened last time, when we reached 10 physical DoS and the winning plan didn't have that contingency.
@Epic Bygones
For Plan Max Bureaucracy, Sect Points and Breakthrough
I don't see how it will reach 25% Bureaucracy this week. We are at 10% and each block is maximum 2% progress.
After successful breakthrough in Mental Cultivation, Physical Cultivation will be at 16 DoS so it's better to continue Mental Cultivation until both are equal.
For Plan Max Bureaucracy, Sect Points and Breakthrough
I don't see how it will reach 25% Bureaucracy this week. We are at 10% and each block is maximum 2% progress.
After successful breakthrough in Mental Cultivation, Physical Cultivation will be at 16 DoS so it's better to continue Mental Cultivation until both are equal.
Yeah, if nothing weird happens, it's impossible to get to 25%. I mostly put that condition in because it's good habit. It doesn't hurt, at least.
The need for balance only matters for Steps, not DoS (Edit - or so I assume, voting would be a nightmare otherwise or the Qm would have to radically change the format).
Is it possible to do more than 1 block a day of Garden Job?
Oh, not even Steps, but Realms (and not the first one), so it's something we won't have to worry about until much later, right?